Re: How to GRANT rights to modify a table ???

From: Denis BUCHER <dbucherml(at)hsolutions(dot)ch>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: rod(at)iol(dot)ie, PostgreSQL - General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to GRANT rights to modify a table ???
Date: 2009-09-12 17:17:08
Message-ID: 4AABD794.1050705@hsolutions.ch
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Denis BUCHER a écrit :
> Tom Lane a écrit :
>> "Raymond O'Donnell" <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> writes:
>>> On 12/09/2009 16:44, Denis BUCHER wrote:
>>>> ERROR: must be the owner of the mytable relation
>>> The clue is in the error message :-) .... GRANTing ALL doesn't make them
>>> the owner of the object as well.
>>> For that, you have to do something like
>>> ALTER TABLE mytable OWNER TO mycolleague;
>> What might be more practical is to create a group role that actually
>> owns the table, and make everyone who needs to do this sort of thing
>> a member of that group.
>>
>> CREATE ROLE mytable_owner;
>> ALTER TABLE mytable OWNER TO mytable_owner;
>> GRANT mytable_owner TO myself, mycolleague, ... ;
>>
>> I highly recommend reading the GRANT command reference page.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>
> It's strange but after having tried it, it doesn't work ?
>
> pg_dump says :
>
> CREATE ROLE tableowner;
> ALTER ROLE tableowner WITH NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEROLE NOCREATEDB
> NOLOGIN;
> GRANT tableowner TO mycolleague GRANTED BY postgres;
> GRANT tableowner TO postgres GRANTED BY postgres;
>
> My table seems to be correct :
>
> bw_rma=# \dt abc.testtable
> Liste des relations
> Schéma | Nom | Type | Propriétaire
> --------+------------+-------+--------------
> abc | testtable | table | tableowner
> (1 ligne)
>
> When I login as "mycolleague" :
> ALTER TABLE abc.testtable ADD COLUMN field integer;
>
> What is wrong in what I do ?

Ok I found the solution myself ;-))

ALTER ROLE mycolleague INHERIT;

That's all ;-))

Denis

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